The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has appointed Paula Hardy as program director. Joining FISD after 13 years at Lehman Brothers, where she was most recently vice president for contracts and vendor management, Hardy started at FISD on January 8 and is based in Washington, DC.
Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) makes sweeping changes to pre- and post-trade transparency, extending MiFID requirements limited to equities trades on regulated platforms to cover equity-like and non-equity instruments traded on any trading venue. It also requires trade data to be published through approved arrangements and made available on a consolidated tape. Achieving...
“Client demand drove this acquisition. We believe this acquisition will make our customers more efficient in their trading,” says Brian Hyndman, senior vice president at Nasdaq OMX Global Data, about the exchange group’s December 19 acquisition of the business of RapiData, a provider of low-latency, machine-readable economic news. RapiData provided low-latency economic news, covering more...
A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce the inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London on May 14th 2026. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.
Entity data management is this year’s hot topic as financial firms focus on entity data to gain a better understanding of customers, improve risk management and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Data management programmes that enrich the Legal Entity Identifier with hierarchy data and links to other datasets can also add real value, including new business...